flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:17 AM

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if you guys are interested in modular arithmetic you should read about the Chinese Remainder Theorem

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 6:17 AM

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ohno

flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:17 AM

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Also try AoC 2020 Day 13

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that one's fun

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 6:17 AM

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i think i dp'd that

flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:17 AM

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but actually not because if you don't know CRT you just can't do part 2

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oh really

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 6:18 AM

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don't remember exactly

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and i don't have my old code 😔

flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:19 AM

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anyway yeah my code for that day is super short because it's literally just the chinese remainder theorem

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oh fun fact

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i did the entirety of AoC 2020 on replit

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 6:19 AM

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wow

left yew Dec 11, 2022, 6:19 AM

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I thought my eval function was slowing down part2

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started looking into re on google 😆

flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:20 AM

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left yew I thought my eval function was slowing down part2

it definitely is

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but only on the order of around 4x

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also you don't need regex to parse the operation

left yew Dec 11, 2022, 6:21 AM

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ik

flat sequoia Dec 11, 2022, 6:21 AM

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my eval solution takes ~1.7s to run compared to my friend's 440ms non-eval

left yew Dec 11, 2022, 6:21 AM

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mine takes almost 5 seconds 👀 with eval

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 6:23 AM

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same

left yew Dec 11, 2022, 6:28 AM

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my non eval takes 250ms approx

devout tusk Dec 11, 2022, 7:30 AM

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I guess we are over doing the ||. ||

modern terrace Dec 11, 2022, 7:31 AM

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devout tusk I guess we are over doing the ||. ||

SCP foundation online forums (2022, colorized)

radiant otter Dec 11, 2022, 8:03 AM

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modern terrace SCP foundation online forums (2022, colorized)

SCP?????

gleaming cedar Dec 11, 2022, 8:18 AM

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today was my favorite minus the time it took xd

woven solar Dec 11, 2022, 8:23 AM

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that's my joke :p

gleaming cedar Dec 11, 2022, 8:34 AM

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it's staying that way 💀

modern terrace Dec 11, 2022, 8:34 AM

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woven solar that's my joke :p

yes but mine is in a different format

gleaming cedar Dec 11, 2022, 8:37 AM

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@modern terrace https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zicv17/2022_days_110_python_a_graphical_representation/

r/adventofcode - [2022 Days 1-10] [Python] A graphical representati...

83 votes and 17 comments so far on Reddit

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@stable crest 🗿

devout tusk Dec 11, 2022, 9:09 AM

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gleaming cedar <@926276210248515626> 🗿

https://tenor.com/view/crab-rave-dancing-dancing-crab-gif-16543314

Tenor

gleaming cedar Dec 11, 2022, 9:15 AM

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/291284109232308226/998361231805132900/final_62d490dbcb056c0078f302b8_148817.gif

honest elk Dec 11, 2022, 10:35 AM

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uh

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i did p1 of today but i dont know how to use ||modulo|| with p2

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do i have to ||learn chinese remainder theorem||

ocean pike Dec 11, 2022, 10:54 AM

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💀

latent haven Dec 11, 2022, 10:55 AM

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How to take vertical array as input in python??

stray crescent Dec 11, 2022, 10:58 AM

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how to round of 0.5 to 1

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round(0.5) gives 0

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i want it to return 1

ocean pike Dec 11, 2022, 10:59 AM

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math.ceil?

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well that rounds everything up-

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:01 AM

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does part 2 actually say how to keep my worry levels manageable or am I meant to find that by myself?

ocean pike Dec 11, 2022, 11:01 AM

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You are yo find that yourself

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:01 AM

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😔

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:33 AM

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I don't get it, my code is running quickly but somehow I am not getting the correct amount of inspections

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the same code worked for part 1

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:35 AM

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green scarab I don't get it, my code is running quickly but somehow I am not getting the corr...

what was your workaround for numbers getting too big?

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:36 AM

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parse the operation

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instead of using eval

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:36 AM

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parse the operation?

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:37 AM

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yea

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:38 AM

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~~ngl im bad at python so im not sure what that means~~

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:39 AM

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I take the string and turn it into a number myself

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:39 AM

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so like
you define a multiplication function based on the digits in the string?

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:40 AM

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yea

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:40 AM

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ohh fair
i didnt think of that solution actually but thats a cool way of doing it

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i think as a mathematician i instinctively tended towards more number theoretical approaches

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:43 AM

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I went with that approach since I had no other idea lol

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I think my implementation was wrong tho

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:53 AM

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ngl i was disappointed that the ||naive % n|| solution was good enough, i came up with the idea of having ||a list of 7 residue classes (one for each monkey) and keeping track of those so that the numbers wouldnt get as high as the lcm did||

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and i was so proud of that

green scarab Dec 11, 2022, 11:56 AM

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that's very interesting

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 11:59 AM

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if i had to run the monkey operations by hand thats how id do it because 9699690 is a big number to do divisions with

zenith elbow Dec 11, 2022, 12:19 PM

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lol yup those definitely aren't shell (but shell is readable too!)

stable crest Dec 11, 2022, 1:37 PM

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gleaming cedar <@926276210248515626> 🗿

this is art

crude trench Dec 11, 2022, 2:22 PM

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||ok||

elfin dirge Dec 11, 2022, 2:35 PM

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anybody have a good resource where i can learn ||modulo arithmetic|| in depth? So i understand it well enough that next time when i face something like day11p2 i am prepared?

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found this: ||https://youtu.be/lJ3CD9M3nEQ|| seems promising

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 3:04 PM

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elfin dirge anybody have a good resource where i can learn ||modulo arithmetic|| in depth? S...

I'll be honest I already knew that well enough that I should have been able to realise the solution to the problem quickly but it still took me ages because it was 5AM lmao

nimble furnace Dec 11, 2022, 3:06 PM

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Looking at today's AoC, this challenge is the first one which just has me completely... lost. The input is so short that it wouldn't be difficult at all to just hard-code the operations, but that feels a little cheaty

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I'm wondering, is there a cleaner way to take a string such as ||new = old + 8||, and convert that into a Python function like ||lambda x: x + 8||?

elfin dirge Dec 11, 2022, 3:09 PM

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nimble furnace I'm wondering, is there a cleaner way to take a string such as ||`new = old + 8`...

eval?

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not just the expression, but just adding the whole function body?

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i think that could be clean

elfin timber Dec 11, 2022, 3:10 PM

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elfin dirge anybody have a good resource where i can learn ||modulo arithmetic|| in depth? S...

this got me thinking about where i actually learned modulo arithmetic

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because i always just assumed i gained the intuition from practicing python

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but then everyone on aoc

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some of which are more experienced than me

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dont have the same intuition

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so idk how i got to a point that i accidentally took it for granted

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because i never formally learned it and yet i didnt have any issues with todays puzzle?

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and im genuinely not good at coding normally

magic oxide Dec 11, 2022, 3:15 PM

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elfin dirge anybody have a good resource where i can learn ||modulo arithmetic|| in depth? S...

if you're somewhat familiar with math terms the wikipedia page ain't bad

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zach is pretty good as well

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for both math and entertainment

elfin dirge Dec 11, 2022, 3:16 PM

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magic oxide for both math and entertainment

agree

magic oxide Dec 11, 2022, 3:17 PM

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brilliant has a few good pages on ||quadratic residues and primitive roots and stuff|| but ||that's deeper number theory|| i highly doubt would crop up here

elfin dirge Dec 11, 2022, 3:17 PM

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nimble furnace I'm wondering, is there a cleaner way to take a string such as ||`new = old + 8`...

||```py
def convert_to_function(op):
loc = dict()
exec(f"""def fn(old):{op};return new""", {}, loc)
return loc["fn"]

fn = convert_to_function("new = old + 8")
print(fn(8)) # => 16

crisp coyote Dec 11, 2022, 3:20 PM

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Had my first incorrect answer today, for the first part I messed up my ||list slicing to get the top two||, ||since there were 4 in the example [2:] worked the same as [-2:] but is clearly incorrect||, I was doing so well lemon_angrysad

elfin dirge Dec 11, 2022, 3:21 PM

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crisp coyote Had my first incorrect answer today, for the first part I messed up my ||list sl...

my naive me just popping twice

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max1, max2 = lst.pop(), lst.pop()

crisp coyote Dec 11, 2022, 3:22 PM

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at least it works haha

hollow kernel Dec 11, 2022, 4:18 PM

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can anybody give me a hint on part 2 of today?

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on how to handle those high numbers

fossil cipher Dec 11, 2022, 4:47 PM

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It has been hinted at in here a couple of times.

hollow kernel Dec 11, 2022, 5:12 PM

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yep found it

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||modulo the lcm||

tepid cairn Dec 11, 2022, 5:16 PM

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gahahah I still haven't gotten to day 7 😔

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I'll hopefully have time to get to it today >.>

nimble furnace Dec 11, 2022, 5:22 PM

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Finally solved part 2 of today! I think that's the most I've learned from a single AoC problem so far

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it really took me aback ||just how small the necessary optimisation fix was||, it's knowing how to get there which was the real challenge

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 5:48 PM

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nimble furnace I'm wondering, is there a cleaner way to take a string such as ||`new = old + 8`...

||a = eval("new = old + 8".replace("new =", "lambda old:"))||

nimble furnace Dec 11, 2022, 5:52 PM

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Thanks @torn thorn and @elfin dirge for sharing how you've parsed that section of the input - in the end I opted for a pattern matching solution as I didn't wanna introduce anything potentially unsafe into the script, but it's interesting to see how others have parsed it!

rapid wolf Dec 11, 2022, 5:55 PM

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torn thorn ||`a = eval("new = old + 8".replace("new =", "lambda old:"))`||

please spoiler any hints

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 5:58 PM

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rapid wolf please spoiler any hints

oops mb

stable crest Dec 11, 2022, 6:10 PM

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some of these problems are extremely parse heavy lmfao

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usually it’s smooth sailing after you figure out how to parse it though

restive imp Dec 11, 2022, 6:37 PM

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oh man, finally day 10 done, after I broke part 1 by rearranging my code

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Now day 8 is still bugging me

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:40 PM

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tepid cairn I'll hopefully have time to get to it today >.>

do you get stars for solving problems from older problems(some days ago)

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 8:40 PM

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Yes

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:40 PM

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bcs im too lazy to do todays rn

tepid cairn Dec 11, 2022, 8:40 PM

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yeah, you get stars for anything you finish

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:40 PM

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oh thats great

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how do i know if an item has been damaged

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 8:42 PM

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Lmao

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:42 PM

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or is it not relevant for part 1

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 8:42 PM

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They aren't

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:43 PM

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oh i thought i missed something in the description 💀

devout tusk Dec 11, 2022, 8:43 PM

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dense osprey how do i know if an item has been damaged

lol, not relevant

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:44 PM

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ok and if monkey 0 passes an item to monkey one
does monkey one inspect the item in the same round?

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 8:45 PM

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Yes

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:47 PM

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ok

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damn part 1 isnt even that hard

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i think

wet fiber Dec 11, 2022, 8:48 PM

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dense osprey how do i know if an item has been damaged

this is all probably spoilers btw. You should ask in #1051367410856366150

dense osprey Dec 11, 2022, 8:51 PM

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oh sry i thought im in that channel

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ill switch to the thread

sinful matrix Dec 11, 2022, 10:28 PM

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copilot 😂

simple kettle Dec 11, 2022, 10:32 PM

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sinful matrix copilot 😂

just get a supercomputer tbh

sinful matrix Dec 11, 2022, 10:33 PM

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well even then, the AOC website will give you a timeout

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like the first 2 are 1 minute, then 5 minutes from there

honest nacelle Dec 11, 2022, 10:48 PM

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Could someone DM me a small hint for part 2 of today? I've been wracking my brain all day and cannot figure out what the hell to do. Usually I have some idea of how these optimization problems go, but this one has completely stumped me

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 10:48 PM

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sinful matrix copilot 😂

Do you write code in Minecraft font lol

sinful matrix Dec 11, 2022, 10:48 PM

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yes i do!

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lmao i did that for back when i actively made mods and plugins

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 10:48 PM

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honest nacelle Could someone DM me a small hint for part 2 of today? I've been wracking my brai...

You need to ||make the numbers smaller without affecting the divisibility check||

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Do you need a bigger hint than that?

sinful matrix Dec 11, 2022, 10:49 PM

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easier switching from game to vs code idk man

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 10:49 PM

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Fair enough lol

torn thorn Dec 11, 2022, 10:50 PM

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wow

honest nacelle Dec 11, 2022, 10:50 PM

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earnest forge Do you need a bigger hint than that?

That's about what I figured, but how... I'm gonna play around with it a bit and see if I can't figure something out. Do you mind if I ping you in a bit if I still don't get it?

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 10:51 PM

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honest nacelle That's about what I figured, but how... I'm gonna play around with it a bit and ...

I'm going to bed, but I'll leave a couple of hints in increasing amounts of telling-you-the-answer

honest nacelle Dec 11, 2022, 10:51 PM

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Thank you very much! That's very kind of y ou

earnest forge Dec 11, 2022, 10:53 PM

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earnest forge I'm going to bed, but I'll leave a couple of hints in increasing amounts of tell...

||if you have a monkey that checks divisibility by 3 and one that checks divisibility by 5, how often will the pattern repeat?||

||FizzBuzz!||

||Modular arithmetic is your friend||

(This is the answer, only open if you want to be spoiled on how to optimise it properly)
||You want to modulo your stress levels by the LCM of all of your monkeys' divisibility checks||

viscid dust Dec 12, 2022, 2:58 AM

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What's the latest python version that availabe on windows 7

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And is here anybody that programming with django?

I need some advices

sharp panther Dec 12, 2022, 2:59 AM

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viscid dust What's the latest python version that availabe on windows 7

3.8

viscid dust Dec 12, 2022, 3:01 AM

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sharp panther 3.8

Thanks a lot

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Do you old python programmer?

sharp panther Dec 12, 2022, 3:01 AM

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hm?

viscid dust Dec 12, 2022, 3:02 AM

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@sharp panther

I sent a request to you

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I need someone to help me with django

sharp panther Dec 12, 2022, 3:02 AM

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i don't really accept friend requests

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and i do not use django

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perhaps #web-development can help, though

viscid dust Dec 12, 2022, 3:03 AM

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sharp panther i don't really accept friend requests

No problem

And thank you very much

open magnet Dec 12, 2022, 3:45 AM

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Took a break for some family matters but i finally got day 4 part 1 done!

next viper Dec 12, 2022, 3:58 AM

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Datum part 2 today is a doozie.

hollow wharf Dec 12, 2022, 4:20 AM

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Hello I'm trying to solve day 1 challenge without getting a solution right away

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Is this the right channel to talk in

open magnet Dec 12, 2022, 4:34 AM

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Yes

earnest forge Dec 12, 2022, 4:56 AM

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Good luck everyone

naive stone Dec 12, 2022, 4:56 AM

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 12, 2022, 4:56 AM

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Day 12 starts <t:1670821200:R>.

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 4:58 AM

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whooo

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hype

earnest forge Dec 12, 2022, 4:58 AM

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GLHF

compact wasp Dec 12, 2022, 4:58 AM

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it is time to choke again

placid lake Dec 12, 2022, 4:58 AM

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whoop whoop

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goood luck

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 4:58 AM

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hollow wharf Hello I'm trying to solve day 1 challenge without getting a solution right away

#1047739554913865738

compact wasp Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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i'm curious on how i'll screw up this time

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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glhf

placid lake Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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same

earnest forge Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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I'm hopeful that won't happen

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We'll see

covert arrow Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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glhf

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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30 seconds

compact wasp Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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ok but you're quite a bit better than me

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so i do not have such hope

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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im gonna take like 5 hours

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just from pure choke

compact wasp Dec 12, 2022, 4:59 AM

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L

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same tbh

shut trellisBOT Dec 12, 2022, 5:00 AM

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<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 12 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/12. Good luck!

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:00 AM

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ew

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 5:01 AM

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oh god no

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:01 AM

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looks gross

quasi fjord Dec 12, 2022, 5:02 AM

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aPES3_HappyCongaWobble

wet fiber Dec 12, 2022, 5:02 AM

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a heck, I was fearing it would come to this... ||pathfinding|| :p

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:02 AM

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looks like a pathfinding

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gasp

wet fiber Dec 12, 2022, 5:03 AM

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yea I have no idea about these kind of algorithms, guess I'll go to sleep and try to properly tackle it in the morning

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 5:04 AM

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don't mind me casually installing ||networkx||

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:04 AM

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💀

covert arrow Dec 12, 2022, 5:05 AM

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i give up

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:05 AM

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bro

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don't give up

tepid cairn Dec 12, 2022, 5:07 AM

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lolol

woven sable Dec 12, 2022, 5:07 AM

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i'm not doing this tn lmao

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too much work

pine tiger Dec 12, 2022, 5:09 AM

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better than nothing, i guess

minor cave Dec 12, 2022, 5:11 AM

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#1051727801071456267

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:11 AM

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damn

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?

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rehtorical or asking for an answer

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:13 AM

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lol i got reading diffed again

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:13 AM

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rip

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:13 AM

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i didn't realize the end had elevation z for the longest time

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holy shit

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so i kept getting some small number

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i don't like the word ||floodfill||

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||floodfill is an application of bfs not bfs||

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 5:14 AM

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are you kidding me

minor cave Dec 12, 2022, 5:14 AM

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Spoiler some of your messages please

magic oxide Dec 12, 2022, 5:14 AM

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i had the answer but i pressed cmd v twice

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so now i have to wait a minute

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:15 AM

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rip

livid gull Dec 12, 2022, 5:15 AM

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not too bad

pine tiger Dec 12, 2022, 5:16 AM

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nice rank right there

livid gull Dec 12, 2022, 5:18 AM

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ikr almost had both but too quick yesterday

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:19 AM

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ok my solution is throwing hard

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probably not a good queue size

covert arrow Dec 12, 2022, 5:21 AM

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nice

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:24 AM

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I'm actually so mad

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this is the exact type of problem I'm good at

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but i had to fuck it up by reading the question wrong

earnest forge Dec 12, 2022, 5:27 AM

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flat sequoia this is the exact type of problem I'm good at

I had a ||neighbours|| and a ||dijkstras|| ready for this kind of problem and then I discovered they both have subtle usability issues that I need to go fix
Also I made the mistake of assuming ||that the start would be in the top left|| which was wrong

pine tiger Dec 12, 2022, 5:28 AM

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ffff

covert arrow Dec 12, 2022, 5:29 AM

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I nearly gave up after reading the puzzle

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then I searched on google

torn thorn Dec 12, 2022, 5:29 AM

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i am throwing hard

pine tiger Dec 12, 2022, 5:29 AM

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how would you search this problem on google

covert arrow Dec 12, 2022, 5:29 AM

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not this specifically

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the pathfinding

minor cave Dec 12, 2022, 5:30 AM

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Spoiler your messages please

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:31 AM

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earnest forge I had a ||`neighbours`|| and a ||`dijkstras`|| ready for this kind of problem an...

amazing

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i didn't realize that the end had elevation z

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so i kept getting some small number

earnest forge Dec 12, 2022, 5:32 AM

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I noticed that much but I also ||accidentally looked for the end by finding a y instead of finding the E|| 🤦

flat sequoia Dec 12, 2022, 5:37 AM

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skullios

left yew Dec 12, 2022, 6:16 AM

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I just calculated every path and got the min on it for part2 ||but it would take 10 minutes and realized I could just start at E and look for all 'a's for the end, I wasted a lot of time on optimizing my first method to no avail with 2024 'a's 😶‍🌫️ ||

pure ice Dec 12, 2022, 7:36 AM

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YOO THATS MADE IN MY COUNTRY

chilly jewel Dec 12, 2022, 8:06 AM

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I love the level design in this game.

woven oriole Dec 12, 2022, 10:04 AM

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thanks to the last year's day 15 suffering 🙏 i had ||A* and custom matrix class ready||

elfin timber Dec 12, 2022, 1:24 PM

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my friend solved todays problem entirely by hand in 15 minutes

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 1:25 PM

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one of my friends tried that but failed. it looked pretty simple after looking at the data

elfin timber Dec 12, 2022, 1:25 PM

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it was pretty simple

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she just ||copied it jnto google docs and highlighted cells that had to be visited then drew shortest path between them||

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 1:28 PM

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bruh

minor cave Dec 12, 2022, 1:42 PM

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elfin timber she just ||copied it jnto google docs and highlighted cells that had to be visit...

could you spoiler this message? It reveals a bit too much about the challenge

elfin timber Dec 12, 2022, 1:44 PM

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minor cave could you spoiler this message? It reveals a bit too much about the challenge

yeah will do my bad

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 1:48 PM

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minor cave could you spoiler this message? It reveals a bit too much about the challenge

to be fair that's basically written in the prompt itself

untold delta Dec 12, 2022, 3:03 PM

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may i ask some question here guys?

wet fiber Dec 12, 2022, 3:08 PM

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untold delta may i ask some question here guys?

if you're struggling with a specific day then it's probably better to ask in the channel specific to that day

untold delta Dec 12, 2022, 3:12 PM

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wet fiber if you're struggling with a specific day then it's probably better to ask in the...

okay thank you

muted aurora Dec 12, 2022, 3:21 PM

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Haven't had time to do the problem yet, but looks like ||just a BFS for part 1|| right?

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 3:25 PM

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oui

woven oriole Dec 12, 2022, 3:52 PM

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hollow kernel Dec 12, 2022, 4:50 PM

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defo couldnt have done it without cse courses

hot burrow Dec 12, 2022, 5:42 PM

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Hey I have an external keyboard connected to my laptop that always shows a gradient of 3 colors. Is there any way to reprogram it to get it to show only 1?
(I dont really have any coding experience)

runic oriole Dec 12, 2022, 5:56 PM

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A buddy of mine pasted the input into excel, turned it into a heatmap, and selected the straightest path by hand. Excel counted the path length for him, and it was right. I was fuming

wet fiber Dec 12, 2022, 6:08 PM

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runic oriole A buddy of mine pasted the input into excel, turned it into a heatmap, and selec...

spoilers :p

charred gull Dec 12, 2022, 6:15 PM

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woven oriole thanks to the last year's day 15 suffering 🙏 i had ||A* and custom matrix class...

that's way overkill

runic oriole Dec 12, 2022, 6:20 PM

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wet fiber spoilers :p

If you can't do that in python is it really a spoiler on the python discord?

wet fiber Dec 12, 2022, 6:21 PM

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runic oriole If you can't do that in python is it really a spoiler on the python discord?

anything relating to a solution is a spoiler :p

woven oriole Dec 12, 2022, 6:46 PM

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charred gull that's way overkill

||yeah it was just a bfs but i was too lazy so i just made the weights of all = 1 lmfao||

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:01 PM

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how long did part2 from day 11 take for u guys

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runtime of the program to calculate the solution

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:02 PM

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500ish ms in python

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:03 PM

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hidden musk 500ish ms in python

oh i did something extremely unefficient ig bcs mine takes more than 3min for the first 200 runs

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how fast is % with big numbers

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:05 PM

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log n

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:06 PM

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do i even have to simulate all 10k rounds

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:06 PM

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no

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i did tohugh

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:06 PM

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oh

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my program starts to take like 1s per round at round 150

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divisor, if_true, if_false = map(int, actions[i].split())
is doing this 80k times going to take a lot of time

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:10 PM

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what's actions[i].split()

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:10 PM

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the 3 ints

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hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:11 PM

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why are you doing that 80k times. you should only be doing that like 8 times

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:11 PM

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yea

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i just copied most of the code from part1

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and doing that 160 times wasnt a big problem

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:12 PM

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why are you doing it more than 8 times though

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:12 PM

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laziness

hidden musk Dec 12, 2022, 9:13 PM

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that's not laziness though. you're doing more work

dense osprey Dec 12, 2022, 9:19 PM

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divisor, if_true, if_false = temp[i] is this faster than doing a map every time

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temp[i] is a list in a dict

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ill choose a better name

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the eval and the checking if divisible is taking the most time

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of course

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but did i make something unnecessary slow?

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i think the eval cant be faster

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i = number of monkey
index = current item i

fossil cipher Dec 12, 2022, 9:27 PM

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You might be better discussing this in the actual spoilers channel for day 11

sick wasp Dec 13, 2022, 12:47 AM

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Im on day11 part 2 and would like a hint on what algorithm i should be implementing to manage the large numbers? any ideas? Ill take a DM

honest nacelle Dec 13, 2022, 1:53 AM

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Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track for Day 11 Part 2?
I'm trying to|| find the least common multiple of all the divisors for each monkey, and then divide the worry level by that since it won't change the result of the division check||
However, ||the least common multiple is still too big and I'm not seeing anything being divided evenly by it.||
Is this the right approach at all?

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 1:54 AM

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honest nacelle Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track for Day 11 Part 2? I'm trying to||...

||instead of finding the result when dividing what if you just looked at the remainder after dividing?||

honest nacelle Dec 13, 2022, 1:57 AM

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torn thorn ||instead of finding the result when dividing what if you just looked at the rem...

Is this answer right?|| 18170818354||

(I'm on a private leaderboard with prizes so I want to wait a bit before submitting since I got hints)

halcyon wave Dec 13, 2022, 1:59 AM

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honest nacelle Is this answer right?|| 18170818354|| (I'm on a private leaderboard with prizes...

Each person has different inputs

honest nacelle Dec 13, 2022, 2:00 AM

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halcyon wave Each person has different inputs

😮 I completely forgot about that. Well, I get the right answer for the test input so I'mma call it solved

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 3:27 AM

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😭

broken cradle Dec 13, 2022, 3:38 AM

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Need a bit of clarification for day 12 part 1:
|| when it says "This also means that the elevation of the destination square can be much lower than the elevation of your current square.", does that mean you can drop from a high number square to a low one?, like drop from 9 > 7?||

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 3:38 AM

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yes

broken cradle Dec 13, 2022, 3:39 AM

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wish i had seen that sooner 😔

unique osprey Dec 13, 2022, 4:21 AM

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gleaming cedar 😭

I mean it works, right?

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 4:39 AM

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I didn't get enough sleep

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Oh well

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:49 AM

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gleaming cedar 😭

LOL

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 13, 2022, 4:57 AM

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Day 13 starts <t:1670907600:R>.

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:57 AM

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where's the hype 😔

placid lake Dec 13, 2022, 4:58 AM

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hello friends

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:58 AM

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hola

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 4:58 AM

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glhf

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 4:58 AM

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torn thorn where's the hype 😔

Too tired 🥱

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GLHF everyone

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:58 AM

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earnest forge Too tired 🥱

rips

placid lake Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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good luck

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have fun

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bye bye

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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whooo

wet fiber Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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earnest forge Too tired 🥱

same, i'm quite tired today XD

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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see yall in 3 hours

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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only day 13 !!!

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no problems that built off of prev days though

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sadge

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10 secs

wet fiber Dec 13, 2022, 4:59 AM

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staying awake until 2:00 am 13 days in a row takes a toll on me XD

shut trellisBOT Dec 13, 2022, 5:00 AM

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<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 13 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/13. Good luck!

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 5:00 AM

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bruh this is an eval problem

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 5:00 AM

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reminds me of shellfish nums

arctic gust Dec 13, 2022, 5:03 AM

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;-; i even didn't finish the 1st one

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:11 AM

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87 / 55 🎉

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:11 AM

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magic oxide reminds me of shellfish nums

Do you mean snailfish?

hexed axle Dec 13, 2022, 5:16 AM

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#1052090781218902086

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 5:17 AM

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||how to use compare function with sort||

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:18 AM

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||functools.cmp_to_key||

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 5:18 AM

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ty

flat sequoia Dec 13, 2022, 5:26 AM

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Man I'm falling off

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I didn't leaderboard the third day in a row

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:27 AM

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Rip

pine tiger Dec 13, 2022, 5:27 AM

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god

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that was awful

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:27 AM

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I'm coming for your leaderboard spot ¬.¬

pine tiger Dec 13, 2022, 5:30 AM

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what a crappy roblem

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 5:31 AM

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lmao

stable shale Dec 13, 2022, 5:36 AM

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Quite an interest one today

tepid cairn Dec 13, 2022, 5:52 AM

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might even be compound interest

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 5:53 AM

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earnest forge Do you mean snailfish?

yes
i named my class ShellfishNumber last year for some odd reason

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 5:53 AM

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Lmao

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:16 AM

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wait what does part 2 even mean

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where am i supposed to put the divider packets, after every pair?

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 6:16 AM

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||add the markers, sort the data, find the markers||

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:17 AM

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earnest forge ||add the markers, sort the data, find the markers||

||uh add them where||

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just anywhere?

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 6:18 AM

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gleaming cedar ||uh add them where||

||doesn't matter, you're sorting the data afterwards||

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:18 AM

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gotchu

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thanks

covert arrow Dec 13, 2022, 6:21 AM

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nooo

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I forgor 💀

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 6:22 AM

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Rip

covert arrow Dec 13, 2022, 6:22 AM

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started 1h late

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flat sequoia Dec 13, 2022, 6:40 AM

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magic oxide reminds me of shellfish nums

i loved that fucking problem

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this one sucks

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:42 AM

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i got too excited and kept the example's answer 💀

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lets goo, thanks @earnest forge

placid lake Dec 13, 2022, 6:43 AM

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snailfish or shellfish

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:43 AM

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bubble sort for the win x)

placid lake Dec 13, 2022, 6:44 AM

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tim sort for the win

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:47 AM

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rofl fuck day 9

dense nacelle Dec 13, 2022, 6:49 AM

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I liked day 9. Only had to rewrite half my program to get it to work, but it worked better because of it.

placid lake Dec 13, 2022, 6:50 AM

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day 9 was pretty fun actually

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 6:52 AM

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probably my least favorite day

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i don't even want to try it again 💀

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grids are my biggest weakness 😭

mossy basin Dec 13, 2022, 7:29 AM

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don't actually need sort

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 8:11 AM

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day 9 was pretty fun

stray crescent Dec 13, 2022, 9:24 AM

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magic oxide day 9 was pretty fun

yess

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 9:53 AM

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my day 12 takes 4.8s to run, is that very bad?

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 9:56 AM

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magic oxide day 9 was pretty fun

i'm probably the only one who hated day 9 💀

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moving crates was the most fun

polar sand Dec 13, 2022, 10:42 AM

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I have no idea how to approach parsing today's problem

stray crescent Dec 13, 2022, 11:45 AM

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ok guys

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i am lagging behind by three days

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which is the easiest out of day-11, 12 and 13

feral hazel Dec 13, 2022, 11:48 AM

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I'd say day 13

magic oxide Dec 13, 2022, 12:27 PM

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definitely day 13

modern terrace Dec 13, 2022, 1:03 PM

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day 11 i still managed to do by myself but i think day 13 should be the easiest assuming you know how to parse it

hidden musk Dec 13, 2022, 1:08 PM

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molten pasture my day 12 takes 4.8s to run, is that very bad?

it's up there..

humble copper Dec 13, 2022, 1:16 PM

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my part 1 for today is getting the sample input right but not the actual input

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 2:08 PM

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humble copper my part 1 for today is getting the sample input right but not the actual input

story of my life every day 💀

covert arrow Dec 13, 2022, 2:08 PM

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make some test cases yourself

humble copper Dec 13, 2022, 2:09 PM

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nvm i got it

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 2:09 PM

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covert arrow make some test cases yourself

https://tenor.com/view/aint-nobody-got-time-for-gif-24033891

Tenor

humble copper Dec 13, 2022, 2:09 PM

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just lucky, i suppose

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(or unlucky)

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😅

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i know someone that's doing aoc this year in c++ to try to learn the language

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 3:48 PM

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gleaming cedar rofl fuck day 9

Which one was day 9 again lol

polar sand Dec 13, 2022, 3:52 PM

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Knots

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 3:52 PM

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Ahh

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Yeah that one wasn't so bad lol

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My worst so far was day 7 lol

pine tiger Dec 13, 2022, 3:54 PM

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humble copper i know someone that's doing aoc this year in c++ to try to learn the language

wow

shut trellisBOT Dec 13, 2022, 4:54 PM

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Sorry, an unexpected error occurred. Please let us know!

CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10008): Unknown Message

tepid cairn Dec 13, 2022, 5:16 PM

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rip

mortal creek Dec 13, 2022, 6:05 PM

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&aoc join

past comet Dec 13, 2022, 7:36 PM

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that feeling when you're not sure why a function isn't working and you realize it's because you're not calling it at all 😐

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ok, now i'm geniunely confused

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ok had it right the first time

undone jackal Dec 13, 2022, 8:03 PM

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&aoc join

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:07 PM

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[STARTING BENCHMARK]

Anno 2022:

 Esercizio 1:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000595 ] [ 0.000601 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 2:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.001241 ] [ 0.000576 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 3:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000560 ] [ 0.000446 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 4:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.001643 ] [ 0.001657 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 5:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000576 ] [ 0.000476 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 8:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.014052 ] [ 0.016037 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 6:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000426 ] [ 0.001017 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 7:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.001075 ] [ 0.001149 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

 Esercizio 9:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.004447 ] [ 0.023916 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

Esercizio 10:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000047 ] [ 0.000106 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

Esercizio 11:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.000816 ] [ 0.305382 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

Esercizio 12:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.019249 ] [ 0.011000 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

Esercizio 13:  [  PART 1  ] [  PART 2  ]
        Alex:  [ 0.012493 ] [ 0.015163 ]
     Winners:  [   Alex   ] [   Alex   ]

Just sharing my daily execution times. Did you guys do better?

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 8:17 PM

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you guys are benchmarking?!

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:17 PM

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I am, I try to make efficient and clean solutions

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:21 PM

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molten pasture ``` [STARTING BENCHMARK] Anno 2022: Esercizio 1: [ PART 1 ] [ PART 2 ] ...

BTW I know it looks dumb to write "Winners" as it is. The benchmarking tool I made supports different "players" and will list them all and say who made it faster

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:31 PM

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molten pasture ``` [STARTING BENCHMARK] Anno 2022: Esercizio 1: [ PART 1 ] [ PART 2 ] ...

what language?

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:33 PM

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cyan sleet what language?

python

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:33 PM

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ok, if so putting up my times would be unfair 😛

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:34 PM

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What language are you using?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:34 PM

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rust

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:34 PM

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Oh Nice

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I did last year in Rust too

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:34 PM

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I learned rust during last years AoC

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:35 PM

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I'd expect your times to be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude faster?

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 8:35 PM

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doesn't matter if it takes half a second or 0.005 of a second both are basically instant

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:36 PM

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Also unlikely to have too much of a difference if the majority of time is spent loading the input as opposed to parsing and processing

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Probably not true for most puzzles, but the earlier ones probably do have that issue

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:36 PM

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molten pasture I'd expect your times to be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude faster?

probably not 3 orders of magnitude most of the time

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 8:36 PM

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cyan sleet probably not 3 orders of magnitude most of the time

how about if you include compile time

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:37 PM

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I really like that graph, how did you generate it?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:37 PM

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earnest forge I really like that graph, how did you generate it?

just printing box drawing characters

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:37 PM

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torn thorn how about if you include compile time

welp, if I would include that I would switch to go or C

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:37 PM

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I knew that but I meant more like is there a lib or are you just calculating manually?

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:37 PM

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earnest forge Also unlikely to have too much of a difference if the majority of time is spent ...

My benchmark measures the execution of the main function, which receives a big string with the whole unparsed input file and does the whole thing

torn thorn Dec 13, 2022, 8:38 PM

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cyan sleet welp, if I would include that I would switch to go or C

xd

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:38 PM

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cyan sleet just printing box drawing characters

It looks really nice

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:38 PM

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earnest forge I knew that but I meant more like is there a lib or are you just calculating man...

manually, it's not hard to do, just some messing about with format strings

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:38 PM

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Fair enough

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:38 PM

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cyan sleet probably not 3 orders of magnitude most of the time

That's also insanely fast

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:39 PM

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good algos and fast language (and small inputs)

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:39 PM

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cyan sleet good algos and fast language (and small inputs)

You measure it on the smaller test input?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:39 PM

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no

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I just mean that the inputs in AoC is just small in general

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:40 PM

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Ohhh yeah

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good algos are the shit

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they're like poetry fr

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:40 PM

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my personal goal is to keep under 1ms per day if I can, let's see how that goes in like a week when things really take off

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:40 PM

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Lmao

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:41 PM

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even the monkey task was...borderline

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I had to actually do clever stuff to not actually simulate all 10k rounds

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otherwise I wouldn't be able to be <1ms

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:41 PM

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I did simulate them alll lol

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:41 PM

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cyan sleet my personal goal is to keep under 1ms per day if I can, let's see how that goes ...

What about day 11 part 2??

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:41 PM

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cyan sleet I had to actually do clever stuff to not actually simulate all 10k rounds

What strategy did you use for that?

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:42 PM

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cyan sleet I had to actually do clever stuff to not actually simulate all 10k rounds

How please?? I am stocked there?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:42 PM

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molten pasture What strategy did you use for that?

if you track the items they end up going in cycles after a while (usually within 300 steps)

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:42 PM

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sweet cliff How please?? I am stocked there?

lol, you don't need my silly solution to do day 11 part 2

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:43 PM

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Why?

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:43 PM

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cyan sleet if you track the items they end up going in cycles after a while (usually within...

That’s estimate

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:43 PM

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sweet cliff Why?

the intended solution is already pretty fast

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:43 PM

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cyan sleet if you track the items they end up going in cycles after a while (usually within...

Oh cool, so your algo can detect cycles and optimize them away?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:44 PM

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molten pasture Oh cool, so your algo can detect cycles and optimize them away?

detect cycle, count stuff in cycle and then I can skip simulating the rest since I know what will happen for the rest of eternity

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:45 PM

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sweet cliff Why?

the secret to part 2 there is to keep the numbers small without messing up the divisor checks for each monkey

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:45 PM

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cyan sleet the intended solution is already pretty fast

My try can’t even reach 1000.
So many calculations for my pc.

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:45 PM

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That's cool, how do you detect a cycle? You compare the state with the state you had earlier?

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:45 PM

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sweet cliff My try can’t even reach 1000. So many calculations for my pc.

Don’t know what to do

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:46 PM

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sweet cliff Don’t know what to do

if one monkey has divisor 3 and the other has the divisor 5, could you do something to make the value smaller without messing up either divisor check?

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:46 PM

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molten pasture That's cool, how do you detect a cycle? You compare the state with the state you...

Is there a way to guarantee that you're in a cycle and can't get out?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:46 PM

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molten pasture That's cool, how do you detect a cycle? You compare the state with the state you...

I'm just using a hash map to keep track of states I've been in

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:47 PM

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cyan sleet if one monkey has divisor 3 and the other has the divisor 5, could you do someth...

Please be more explicit. Not a math guy haha

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:47 PM

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molten pasture Is there a way to guarantee that you're in a cycle and can't get out?

After a -> b -> c -> d -> a -> b that's guaranteed to keep cycling afaik

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:47 PM

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cyan sleet I'm just using a hash map to keep track of states I've been in

Do you compare the EXACT state? Meaning the worry levels of each item too? or just which monkey has how many items?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:47 PM

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sweet cliff Please be more explicit. Not a math guy haha

I mean, try making a guess, if I only had divisor 3 I could just keep the value mod 3

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if I only had 5 I could keep the value mod 5

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:48 PM

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earnest forge After a -> b -> c -> d -> a -> b that's guaranteed to keep cycling afaik

If the states are exactly equal then I agree

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:48 PM

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but what about if I have both 3 and 5

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:48 PM

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molten pasture If the states are exactly equal then I agree

the state is (monkey, value)

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:48 PM

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cyan sleet the state is (monkey, value)

value is the sum of its items?

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:48 PM

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cyan sleet but what about if I have both 3 and 5

Mod 3 mod 5?

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:49 PM

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molten pasture value is the sum of its items?

current value for the item

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every item can be looked at indepenendently

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:49 PM

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sweet cliff Mod 3 mod 5?

not quite, that will for sure fail

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:50 PM

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sweet cliff Mod 3 mod 5?

if I did mod 6, would I break divisibility checks mod 3?

earnest forge Dec 13, 2022, 8:50 PM

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Question: Would an optimisation that stores ||the cached value mod n for every monkey's divisibility check n|| work? I feel like you could do that and then ||once a value hits 0 it will stay there so you always know what that monkey will do||

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:50 PM

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Yh. If 9 off example

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:50 PM

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sweet cliff Yh. If 9 off example

pithink

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give an example of what you mean?

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:51 PM

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sweet cliff Mod 3 mod 5?

Try picking some numbers and finding a way to make it work. For example: How can you reduce 27 while still knowing if it's divisible by 15 and 9?

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:51 PM

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earnest forge Question: Would an optimisation that stores ||the cached value mod n for every m...

I tried caching. But program goes so fast but is incorrect.
Seems like I am doing it the wrong way.

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:51 PM

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cyan sleet current value for the item

Makes sense, that's a very smart algo

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:52 PM

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9%6 = 3, 3%3 = 0
9%3 = 0

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so modding by 6 didn't change things for the mod 3 check later

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the same goes for 9, 12, 15, ...

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 8:53 PM

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Let's keep the spoilers in here: https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1051367410856366150

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 8:53 PM

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all those will not mess up the mod 3 check

sweet cliff Dec 13, 2022, 8:53 PM

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cyan sleet ``` 9%6 = 3, 3%3 = 0 9%3 = 0 ```

Alright. But now if we have 3 and 5 and div

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 9:20 PM

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torn thorn how about if you include compile time

https://tenor.com/view/minion-king-mic-drop-outta-here-frown-gif-17809508

Tenor

past comet Dec 13, 2022, 9:26 PM

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interesting, day 10 actually gained some people from day 9

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I didn't think day 9 and 11 were nearly as hard as, say, day 8

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no wait, day 7

dense osprey Dec 13, 2022, 9:36 PM

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RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison

does this mean that i made a bug which made the recursion infinite?

molten pasture Dec 13, 2022, 9:43 PM

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Yeah that's the most likely explanation

hybrid nimbus Dec 13, 2022, 9:52 PM

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So I have no idea about this 'advent of code' is it to late to get started?

wispy glacier Dec 13, 2022, 9:56 PM

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nope, not too late!

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https://adventofcode.com/

polar sand Dec 13, 2022, 10:09 PM

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past comet I didn't think day 9 and 11 were nearly as hard as, say, day 8

Interesting. Past 3 days have been the hardest ones for me thus far

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Didn't really have any troubles with day 8 though

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Or day 7

past comet Dec 13, 2022, 10:11 PM

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polar sand Or day 7

the file parsing just made me kind of anxious compared to the rope problem

polar sand Dec 13, 2022, 10:11 PM

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Small mistake with day7 part 2, but it was me failing to read the question properly on 4 hours of sleep xD

hidden musk Dec 13, 2022, 10:12 PM

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i thought the rope was fun

past comet Dec 13, 2022, 10:16 PM

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same, my physics background was like "oh, time evolution, no biggy"

polar sand Dec 13, 2022, 10:18 PM

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I snagged a bit on rope part2, had to completely rewrite and approach the problem differently cause I couldn't figure out what my mistake was originally

cyan sleet Dec 13, 2022, 10:19 PM

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meanwhile I was scratching my head about the warning about new kinds of situations happening

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when my solution just worked for it because I just implemented the thing part 1 actually described

hidden musk Dec 13, 2022, 10:29 PM

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yeah i still don't know what that meant

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 10:30 PM

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polar sand Interesting. Past 3 days have been the hardest ones for me thus far

i agree, today was pretty easy compared to the grids we had to do, the tree house was fun though

royal hound Dec 13, 2022, 10:31 PM

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hidden musk yeah i still don't know what that meant

part 2 allows for knots to have a manhattan distance of 4 apart momentarily, which if you are checking all individual cases manually and wrote the minimum for p1 is a new one

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i saw many people on here run into that

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where their rope would break into two upon reaching that case

hidden musk Dec 13, 2022, 10:32 PM

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huh

royal hound Dec 13, 2022, 10:33 PM

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#1050641552524976129 message

past comet Dec 13, 2022, 10:36 PM

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so as a physicist trying to get into commercial software engineering, I'm having trouble landing my first job and there's a pessimist in me that says doing CS homework problems is not really going to help with that

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but i'm doing it anyway because i'm depressed and need something constructive to do

gleaming cedar Dec 13, 2022, 11:00 PM

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screw the rope!1!one!1!

hybrid nimbus Dec 13, 2022, 11:32 PM

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The feeling of waiting to submit another response is oh so agitating.

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 12:05 AM

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ugh, I don't have it in me to parse brackets tonight

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 12:06 AM

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royal hound https://discord.com/channels/267624335836053506/1050641552524976129/105090486953...

Linking directly to a post in a Spoiler channel is a spoiler. You should spoiler tag it with a suitable warning. Something like:

Here's a link to an explanation in the Day X spoiler channel (SPOILERS):

||https://link-to-message||

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 12:06 AM

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let alone try to tackle the "is_ordered" function

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 12:06 AM

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past comet ugh, I don't have it in me to parse brackets tonight

||The packets are perfectly valid Python.||

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 12:08 AM

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... eval...

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 12:08 AM

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||not saying a word||

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 12:09 AM

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I choose to interpret me not thinking of that as a moral strength because it's such a dangerous tool to reach for as a first solution

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 12:11 AM

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||There's a safe alternative to such a dangerous tool.||

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 12:21 AM

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i will inquire after I solve the processing logic a better way for my import to work

woven sable Dec 14, 2022, 1:48 AM

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royal hound where their rope would break into two upon reaching that case

yeah i had this issue and had to visualize it manually 💀

ripe crest Dec 14, 2022, 2:32 AM

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wooo finished day 4 (I'm trying, kind of cry_panda )

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I have yet to actually finish any year because I always get distracted

woven sable Dec 14, 2022, 3:00 AM

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for day 12 part 1 ||is it ok to assume that the path it takes to get to E won't overlap||

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||as in nodes will only be visited once?||

modern harness Dec 14, 2022, 3:02 AM

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woven sable ||as in nodes will only be visited once?||

Correct. Such a path would automatically be longer.

woven sable Dec 14, 2022, 3:02 AM

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alr awesome, ty!

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also for day 12 part 1 ||can you go from say z to a technically?||

modern harness Dec 14, 2022, 3:17 AM

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woven sable also for day 12 part 1 ||can you go from say z to a technically?||

Yes

the elevation of the destination square can be at most one higher than the elevation of your current square; that is, if your current elevation is m, you could step to elevation n, but not to elevation o. (This also means that the elevation of the destination square can be much lower than the elevation of your current square.)

pearl charm Dec 14, 2022, 3:17 AM

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I'm still stuck at Day 7 lmao

woven sable Dec 14, 2022, 3:19 AM

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modern harness Yes > the elevation of the destination square can be at most one higher than the...

oh oops, didn't read that mb

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:54 AM

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 14, 2022, 4:54 AM

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Day 14 starts <t:1670994000:R>.

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:54 AM

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where's the hype

wet fiber Dec 14, 2022, 4:55 AM

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whoo

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 4:55 AM

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hype usually starts around 4 minutes later

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:55 AM

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😔

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we'd hype like 5 minutes before on day 1

placid lake Dec 14, 2022, 4:56 AM

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hallo

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:57 AM

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hi

wet fiber Dec 14, 2022, 4:57 AM

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a new day doesn't start without dennis's glhf

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 4:58 AM

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 14, 2022, 4:58 AM

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Day 14 starts <t:1670994000:R>.

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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Hold on wtf

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That's not right

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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reload

placid lake Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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glhf

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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(yes, I know)

gentle dust Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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I wonder if you can get a desync the other way

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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GLHF

gentle dust Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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and access it early 🥴

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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20 seocnds whoo

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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gentle dust and access it early 🥴

limits on the actual api iirc

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 4:59 AM

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glhf

shut trellisBOT Dec 14, 2022, 5:00 AM

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<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 14 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/14. Good luck!

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:00 AM

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o hew

tepid cairn Dec 14, 2022, 5:00 AM

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👀

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:00 AM

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what the fuck is this input

compact wasp Dec 14, 2022, 5:02 AM

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i give up

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jk

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:02 AM

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lmao

livid gull Dec 14, 2022, 5:03 AM

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yikes

compact wasp Dec 14, 2022, 5:03 AM

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this can't just be simulation… right?

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:03 AM

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lmao

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 5:05 AM

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day 17 2018 strikes again, sand edition

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:05 AM

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lmao

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 5:05 AM

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took me forever to complete that puzzle. Hopefully i'll be a little quicker this time around

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:13 AM

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i'm so glad i bothered to make a display function last time

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i can just reuse that

hexed axle Dec 14, 2022, 5:14 AM

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#1052453456474030151

pine tiger Dec 14, 2022, 5:15 AM

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what a crappy run

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earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 5:18 AM

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Couple of stupid infinite loop bugs today

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:(

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 5:19 AM

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magic oxide i'm so glad i bothered to make a display function last time

Yeah I should do that

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 5:19 AM

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naive stone day 17 2018 strikes again, sand edition

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 5:19 AM

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indeed

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:20 AM

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part 2 took like a solid 10 seconds for me kekw

naive stone Dec 14, 2022, 5:20 AM

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eric never misses an opportunity to link a previous puzzle

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:20 AM

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lmao

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:21 AM

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part 1 took like 5 seconds oh no

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not optimization

pine tiger Dec 14, 2022, 5:23 AM

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||actually, there isn't any today!||

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:26 AM

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magic oxide part 1 took like 5 seconds oh no

wtf

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:27 AM

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this is not looking good

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:27 AM

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took 3 seconds for my part 2

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um

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how did it take 5 for ur part 1 💀

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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my part 2 is still running lmao

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it's been like 2 minutes

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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lmao

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did you run it against a test case first

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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yeah

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it got 93

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so

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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lmao

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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ok i give up

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im profiling

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:28 AM

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no

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don't

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let it run in the background

stable shale Dec 14, 2022, 5:29 AM

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Today looked so scary but it actually wasn't that bad

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:29 AM

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||it was just a simulation problem||

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||it isn't bad||

stable shale Dec 14, 2022, 5:29 AM

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yeah

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Runtime for P2 for me was 1s

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:29 AM

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damn

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3s for me

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||did you guys assume a board size||

late frigate Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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for some reason my code ran super fast

stable shale Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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Also ||I got lazy and didn't make the floor infinite, it's from 0 to the maximum x value + 500. Worked fine for me though so /shrug||

late frigate Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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like < 1 second with default python interp, even when ||iteratively simulating every sand block||

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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send your solutions in #1052453456474030151 !!

unique osprey Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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Well i'm done parsing input...

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feral hazel Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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ooh that looks great

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:30 AM

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unique osprey

oh that looks so cool

unique osprey Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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that looks like a bitch

feral hazel Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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I'm loving the inputs this year

unique osprey Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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now i gotta solve it lol

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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a lot of them are pretty creative

noble shoal Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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Is there a leaderboard this time around?

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:31 AM

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wym

late frigate Dec 14, 2022, 5:32 AM

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Oh wait @magic oxide ||are you using an inf map or a fixed grid?||

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 5:34 AM

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i'm just ||storing complex numbers in a set||

late frigate Dec 14, 2022, 5:36 AM

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magic oxide i'm just ||storing complex numbers in a set||

||ah thats why. everyone ik who did an infinite set was super slow, but everyone who just did a finite grid ran super fast||

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:38 AM

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magic oxide i'm just ||storing complex numbers in a set||

oo ||complex numbers that's cool||

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:38 AM

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late frigate ||ah thats why. everyone ik who did an infinite set was super slow, but everyone...

||i got it down to 0.1 secs!||

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 5:39 AM

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late frigate ||ah thats why. everyone ik who did an infinite set was super slow, but everyone...

My ||defaultdict|| implementation was pretty fast ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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But yes, you totally can just use ||a grid going from (500 - max_y - 2) to (500 + max_y + 2)||

gleaming cedar Dec 14, 2022, 5:41 AM

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not the grids again nooooo

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:41 AM

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gleaming cedar not the grids again nooooo

||not pathfinding luckily!||

gleaming cedar Dec 14, 2022, 5:42 AM

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torn thorn ||not pathfinding luckily!||

yes, thank heavens

unique osprey Dec 14, 2022, 5:45 AM

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P1

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aaaand p2

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 5:57 AM

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unique osprey P1

you probably should put this stuff in #1052453456474030151

unique osprey Dec 14, 2022, 5:58 AM

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🤷‍♂️

hollow wharf Dec 14, 2022, 7:17 AM

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unique osprey

this is cool what is it?

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ah sand simulation

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but parsing input?

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 7:19 AM

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How tall was everyone's input btw? Mine only went up to ||169, including the extra row of sand from p2||

hollow wharf Dec 14, 2022, 7:19 AM

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earnest forge How tall was everyone's input btw? Mine only went up to ||169, including the ext...

this some sort of game?

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 7:20 AM

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hollow wharf this some sort of game?

Go read the puzzle description lol

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 7:45 AM

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earnest forge How tall was everyone's input btw? Mine only went up to ||169, including the ext...

my floor was at ||173||

deft thorn Dec 14, 2022, 8:40 AM

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hollow wharf Dec 14, 2022, 9:07 AM

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im on 10, god i hate debugging these things

earnest forge Dec 14, 2022, 9:39 AM

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deft thorn

LMAO it knows the joke but can't explain it

hollow wharf Dec 14, 2022, 10:18 AM

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is there anyone available to answer a question i have about aoc 10 part 2?

polar sand Dec 14, 2022, 11:02 AM

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Asking in the solution thread would be the best spot to ask

somber garden Dec 14, 2022, 11:05 AM

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could someone help me with my code in python-help?

wanton wedge Dec 14, 2022, 11:07 AM

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hollow wharf is there anyone available to answer a question i have about aoc 10 part 2?

I guess you're having trouble understanding the question (so was I).
I hope I'm not giving too much away, but just intending a little clarification of the question:
||The CRT pixel position is effectively the "timer". It cycles through positions 0 to 39 and then repeats (0 to 39) on the next line, and so on.
The "sprite" is centred on the "Register X" value and extends 1 px left and right. If the CRT pixel position == Register X value (+/- 1), then it's a "#", otherwise a ".".||

graceful tapir Dec 14, 2022, 1:37 PM

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chat
can you fix this

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ticket booker

print("welcome to ticket booker, with our guidance you will reach your destination safely\nplease fill the details asked carefully\nthanks for the copration:")
import mysql.connector
j=mysql.connector.connect(host="localhost",user="root",password="root",database="ticket22")
mycursor=j.cursor()
mycursor.execute("create table ticket15(ticket_no INT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(30), departure VARCHAR(30), destination VARCHAR(30))")
a="insert into ticket15(ticket_no,name,departure,destination) values(%s,%s,%s,%s)"
while True:
choose=input("enter 1 to add data or 2 to not:")
if choose=="1":
a_1=int(input("enter the ticket number you want to add:"))
b_1=input("write your name:")
c_1=input("enter the place from where you want to departure:")
d_1=input("enter the place you want to go:")
else:
break
insert=(a_1,b_1,c_1,d_1)
for i in insert:
result = mycursor.execute(a,insert)
j.commit()
mycursor.execute("select * from ticket15")

polar sand Dec 14, 2022, 1:45 PM

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graceful tapir # ticket booker print("welcome to ticket booker, with our guidance you will rea...

Check out #❓｜how-to-get-help

past comet Dec 14, 2022, 1:50 PM

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Oh, today's is a cellular automata problem?

molten pasture Dec 14, 2022, 2:38 PM

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my day 14 part 2 takes 15 seconds to run :((((

mossy stream Dec 14, 2022, 3:09 PM

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I- uh, any clue why the day order for 2020 is this?

mossy basin Dec 14, 2022, 3:15 PM

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mossy stream I- uh, any clue why the day order for 2020 is *this?*

because the art is a map of the world, and the story takes you all over the world

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so the current day represents where you are

mossy stream Dec 14, 2022, 3:16 PM

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I see

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so the day number is the chronological one?

mossy basin Dec 14, 2022, 3:17 PM

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yep

cedar stone Dec 14, 2022, 3:53 PM

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is it normal to not finish it? i havent been able to do any problems from day 9 onward and now i have to study for uni exams so i dont have spare time to spend on it

minor cave Dec 14, 2022, 3:54 PM

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cedar stone is it normal to not finish it? i havent been able to do any problems from day 9 ...

finishing it is not a trivial thing, most people don't actually. A lot of people will come back after the holidays/exams and keep working on it when they have time too

hidden musk Dec 14, 2022, 4:01 PM

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just don't study for exams, that's what i do

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 4:14 PM

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I'm doing pretty well this year. All days completed. Only needed to sneak one hint, and get a clarification. Better than previous years. Though I suspect I will still fizzle out about Day 18+ 😦

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Yeah, I do try, but often the later puzzles require knowledge I just don't have. Even when I have straight up looked up a solution I have been left baffled 😄

molten pasture Dec 14, 2022, 5:11 PM

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molten pasture my day 14 part 2 takes 15 seconds to run :((((

I got it down to a bit under 2 seconds, how are you guys doing?

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 5:12 PM

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3.5 s 😦

molten pasture Dec 14, 2022, 5:13 PM

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fossil cipher 3.5 s 😦

That could be just because we are using different CPUs

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What's your CPU?

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 5:15 PM

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i7-9850H on my work laptop

molten pasture Dec 14, 2022, 5:15 PM

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I'm using a laptop with a Ryzen 4500

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I don't know which is better

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 5:16 PM

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yours is few years newer, I think

hidden musk Dec 14, 2022, 5:25 PM

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if i don't take into account the time for njit to warm up, i get ~2.7ms for part 1, ~70.2ms for part 2

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but the most time it takes, which is when the jit is jitting, is 1s for part 1 and ~600ms for part 2

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not jit is like 12ms for part 1 and like 650ms for part 2

minor cave Dec 14, 2022, 6:08 PM

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To get a bit meta, now that we're past halfway through the event. How do y'all like the set-up of the solutions channel this time around? Are there any changes people might want to see in the future?

hidden musk Dec 14, 2022, 6:59 PM

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it's alright

polar sand Dec 14, 2022, 7:36 PM

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I like it, glad the golfing was split into its own channel. As interesting as it is trying to follow, I don't understand a lick of it

compact wasp Dec 14, 2022, 7:37 PM

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molten pasture I got it down to a bit under 2 seconds, how are you guys doing?

0.4

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python 3.11 on m2

molten pasture Dec 14, 2022, 7:40 PM

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compact wasp 0.4

I managed to get it down to 0.006 seconds, latest python on ryzen 3600

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no JIT

compact wasp Dec 14, 2022, 7:48 PM

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damn nice

wet fiber Dec 14, 2022, 8:00 PM

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polar sand I like it, glad the golfing was split into its own channel. As interesting as it...

yea that was a great call

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 8:17 PM

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minor cave To get a bit meta, now that we're past halfway through the event. How do y'all l...

more a discord thing but because pydis uses a forum channel system, kinda annoying to search for specific days

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can't do in:Aoc 2022| day 13 | Solutions & Spoilers from:USER has:TEXT

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or stuff like that

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gotta specify before and after dates and that doesn't always work

prisma lintel Dec 14, 2022, 8:20 PM

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Hello everyone, I want to learn programming and the first language I chose is Python, can you tell me where to start learning?(sorry if i posted in the wrong chat)

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 8:21 PM

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prisma lintel Hello everyone, I want to learn programming and the first language I chose is Py...

probably better to ask in #python-discussion

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!resources

marsh currentBOT Dec 14, 2022, 8:21 PM

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Resources

The Resources page on our website contains a list of hand-selected learning resources that we regularly recommend to both beginners and experts.

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 8:21 PM

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you can probably look at this though ^

prisma lintel Dec 14, 2022, 8:21 PM

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okay, thank you, i'm sorry)

polar sand Dec 14, 2022, 8:57 PM

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torn thorn more a discord thing but because pydis uses a forum channel system, kinda annoyi...

Oh yea, this was a little frustrating

magic oxide Dec 14, 2022, 9:31 PM

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the threads are pretty cool imo

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better than last year

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 9:33 PM

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pretty cool but annoying to search for text in

slender herald Dec 14, 2022, 9:42 PM

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this server running a sweatshop?

torn thorn Dec 14, 2022, 9:55 PM

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they're using the elves 👀

fossil cipher Dec 14, 2022, 10:26 PM

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minor cave To get a bit meta, now that we're past halfway through the event. How do y'all l...

It has been great. It was a little cluttered when it was all single spoilers channel. Now you can go straight to the exact day.

Moving the golfers has also improved the chat in these channels, too.

dense nacelle Dec 14, 2022, 10:37 PM

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fossil cipher It has been great. It was a little cluttered when it was all single spoilers cha...

I agree. I was going to say the same thing but you said it way better.

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Though it would be nice if there were not so many posts on each form. 1000+ each day. With the golfers in their own channel it feels like you can actually be part of the conversation. But with so many posts if you come back 8 hours later, there is too many to read. But at least it makes this channel short, which is nice. Would be neat if there was a show off channel. Some people have made great visualisations, but if it isn't posted in this channel, it gets lost in the spoiler channels.

minor cave Dec 15, 2022, 12:18 AM

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dense nacelle Though it would be nice if there were not so many posts on each form. 1000+ each...

A visualizations channel/thread, I hadn't considered that but it would be very neat

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 12:23 AM

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where's our hype channel 😔

minor cave Dec 15, 2022, 12:24 AM

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(what's a hype channel?)

limber needle Dec 15, 2022, 12:24 AM

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#advent-of-code

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plenty of hype here 😉

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 12:25 AM

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where we get hyped for the release of the new puzzle ! ! !

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 12:30 AM

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I think the hype before each day slowly decreases as the days go on because more and more people get behind as the puzzles get more difficult

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 12:33 AM

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😔

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i feel like most of the people were able to get the puzzles done

unique osprey Dec 15, 2022, 12:41 AM

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Oh there can still be hype. It's still >4hrs away

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 15, 2022, 12:41 AM

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Day 15 starts <t:1671080400:R>.

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:07 AM

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torn thorn i feel like most of the people were able to get the puzzles done

i feel like people just get busy

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the puzzles aren't difficult, it's just people losing motivation

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:09 AM

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they aren't the worst

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but like as you get later days beginners wouldn't be able to solve

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:10 AM

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it's only day 14

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we're still in beginner territory

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the only problem i could see giving people trouble was the mod one

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there's 0 thinking for the other ones, just how well you translate english to python

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:14 AM

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day 13 was ||recursion||
day 12 was ||pathfinding||
da 7 was ||trees||

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others are smartly implementing stuff

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most beginners wouldn't be able to do that

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:15 AM

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i guess i don't know what a beginner is

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:16 AM

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i guess our definitions are different

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i'm just used to the lower end of the beginner spectrum

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:16 AM

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day 13 feels like a beginner topic, day 12 could be done without that by using the braindead approach, and i forgot what day 7 was

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:16 AM

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you're probably looking at uni beginners

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im looking at hs beginners

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:16 AM

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oh day 7 was the term one

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:16 AM

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?

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yeah

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tbf you could've just bruteforced with paths

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but like

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:17 AM

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yeah

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you can bruteforce all of these, which is why i'm calling them beginner problems

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except the mod one

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:20 AM

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im calling them not beginner problems because even though you can brute force them, you still need to know the concepts which beginners may not know

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:20 AM

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noted

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day 12 and 13 topics are ideas that aren't hard to come up with on your own

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when i was first learning python, i asked myself what would happen if ||a function called itself||

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:21 AM

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i admit 13 isn't the worst

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12 is just annoying

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:22 AM

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i didn't need someone to tell me that the idea existed

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:22 AM

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torn thorn 12 is just annoying

agreed

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:22 AM

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but like it's a lot easier if you have previous experience

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:22 AM

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that's also true

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:22 AM

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compact wasp when i was first learning python, i asked myself what would happen if ||a functi...

yes, but what if they've never had any experience with ||recursion|| and then they're presented with this problem, i doubt they'd immediately jump to that conclusion

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which is the point i'm trying to make

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:23 AM

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is it rare to independently wonder about that idea?

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if it is, then i stand corrected about my assessment of day 13

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:23 AM

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no but it'll probably be hard to think about that idea when there's like 200 other different ideas that you've thought up before

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like you might have all the tools you need, but not sure when or where to apply them

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but tbf it is a basic idea that comes up time and time again sooo

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🤔

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:27 AM

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torn thorn no but it'll probably be hard to think about that idea when there's like 200 oth...

if you're presented with a screw and 200 screwdrivers, almost anyone would be able to find the right one eventually

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you can narrow it down by the head type from just looking at it, and then manually try out the screwdrivers until you find one that fits

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i guess maybe the right screwdriver could get lost somewhere, buried beneath the others

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but eventually, anyone would be able to find it, as long as they don't give up

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:29 AM

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compact wasp if you're presented with a screw and 200 screwdrivers, almost anyone would be ab...

"eventually" is the key

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enough monkeys on typewriters could solve any problem 👍

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:29 AM

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i guess "eventually" is the difference between how we define a beginner problem

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 1:29 AM

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ig

compact wasp Dec 15, 2022, 1:30 AM

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for me to consider a problem to not be a beginner problem, i think it would require most beginners to acquire a new screwdriver

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it would be something that they can't solve with whatever tools they currently have

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let's say within a day

dense osprey Dec 15, 2022, 2:39 AM

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torn thorn enough monkeys on typewriters could solve any problem 👍

🐒

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i still have to do day 13

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havrnt looked at the problem yet

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:07 AM

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to me, the beginner section of AoC ended long ago

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but i agree it hasn't gotten particularly difficult yet

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past years though, we would've gotten some pretty difficult ones already

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:08 AM

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~~is eric pandering to newer peopel who joined~~

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:08 AM

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i wonder

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:52 AM

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 15, 2022, 4:52 AM

#

Day 15 starts <t:1671080400:R>.

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:52 AM

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7 minutes

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hype!!

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 4:54 AM

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so uh

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all the way until now

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# fricking cursed regex
monkey_fmt = r"""Monkey (\d+):
 {2}Starting items: ([\d, ]+)
 {2}Operation: (new = .*)
 {2}Test: divisible by (\d+)
 {4}If true: throw to monkey (\d+)
 {4}If false: throw to monkey (\d+)"""

monkeys = {}
with open("this_xmas.txt") as read:
    for m in read.read().split('\n\n'):
        if re.match(monkey_fmt, m):

#

i've been doing regex like this

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but i just discovered

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re.compile

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exists

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is my way like just bad?

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bc i don't wanna go back & change every piece of regex i've done like this

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:54 AM

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well on each re.match, you recompile the regex

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so it's a bit slower

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:54 AM

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it should be faster with re.compile

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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yup

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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would you guys recommend i go back & change it?

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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if you need speed

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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so there's nothing really wrong w/ my current way of doing things

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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if you don't need speed

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:55 AM

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placid lake so it's a bit slower

how much slower?

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

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that would probably depend on how large your regex is

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

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and how many times you're using it

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

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yeah

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

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how about in san's case .-.

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

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there's only 8 monkeys, it doesn't matter really

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:56 AM

#

ig

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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GLHF everyone

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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whoo

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hype

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where's stickie

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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could just do findall instead of match

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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and fisk

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an ionite

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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then it makes no difference

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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:(

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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fisk is here

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:57 AM

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eh

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hasn't talked :(

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2 mins ! ! !

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

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good luck all

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

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he said the line whooo

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

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the linE!!11 ‼️

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

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omg

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public santa void

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itsyou

hidden musk Dec 15, 2022, 4:58 AM

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mhm

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:59 AM

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&aoc c

shut trellisBOT Dec 15, 2022, 4:59 AM

#

Day 15 starts <t:1671080400:R>.

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:59 AM

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everyone is burnt out ig 😔

livid gull Dec 15, 2022, 4:59 AM

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its so cold

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-7C

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 4:59 AM

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rip

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glhf everyone

shut trellisBOT Dec 15, 2022, 5:00 AM

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<@&518565788744024082> Good morning! Day 15 is ready to be attempted. View it online now at https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/15. Good luck!

ashen lichen Dec 15, 2022, 5:00 AM

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Hmmm, maybe I'll do day 1 now

livid gull Dec 15, 2022, 5:00 AM

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ohj no not beacons again

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:01 AM

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oh no

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this looks painful to do

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i am throwing hard

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39 seconds 😔

sharp panther Dec 15, 2022, 5:11 AM

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huh. top 100 for first star is filled, but none of both.

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:12 AM

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wait i am so dumb

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i am throwing so hard

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wtf

molten fulcrum Dec 15, 2022, 5:22 AM

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torn thorn i am throwing so hard

Stop tilting, start carrying

devout tusk Dec 15, 2022, 5:22 AM

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Why does it not have more # in the top left?

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There's nothing stopping the sensor

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Unlike other sides where there are beacons

limber aurora Dec 15, 2022, 5:23 AM

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devout tusk Why does it not have more # in the top left?

i think thats the # for only the highlighted S

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:23 AM

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damn part 2 is HARD

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wtf

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:24 AM

#

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well

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better than nothing

molten fulcrum Dec 15, 2022, 5:24 AM

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I did 4 days of AoC (during the 9th day or something). Then I just haven’t found the time/effort/chance to keep at it. Would be fun though

devout tusk Dec 15, 2022, 5:26 AM

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limber aurora i think thats the # for only the highlighted S

Yeah, but should it be able to sense further on the top left though?

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I don't think I understand this quite well

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There are no beacons on the top left to stop the sensor from sensing further

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:28 AM

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My code works for the test case and not for the input -_-

hexed axle Dec 15, 2022, 5:28 AM

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#1052819264907776020

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:29 AM

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quesiton: how does tuple sorting work

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does it compare based off of first elem

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and if its the same then the next?

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:30 AM

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torn thorn and if its the same then the next?

yeah

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:30 AM

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kk ty

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ok i have an idea

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but it's burning my computer up

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it didn't take too long

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forunately

covert arrow Dec 15, 2022, 5:32 AM

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I'm downloading numba on 25kbps internet

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:32 AM

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i'll savor this while it lasts

devout tusk Dec 15, 2022, 5:33 AM

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devout tusk Yeah, but should it be able to sense further on the top left though?

Still have no idea what the problem is trying to say :/

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:33 AM

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devout tusk Yeah, but should it be able to sense further on the top left though?

why would it?

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oh wait

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do you think it's euclidean distance

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& not manhattan

devout tusk Dec 15, 2022, 5:35 AM

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pine tiger do you think it's euclidean distance

How does that matter though, currently? If we are talking about what the sensor can sense. It should go a Manhattan distance in all directions until it finds a beacon and stops, right?

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:36 AM

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yeah it's manhattan distance

#

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and this would be a manhattan distance of let's see

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9?

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:37 AM

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i am kinda throwing

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MMM

wet fiber Dec 15, 2022, 5:37 AM

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#1052819264907776020

devout tusk Dec 15, 2022, 5:38 AM

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pine tiger and this would be a manhattan distance of let's see

Nvm, me stoopid. Thanks

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:39 AM

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np!

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:40 AM

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i found where i fucked up

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EEE

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:40 AM

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nice

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:42 AM

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ok nvm i'm throwing again

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:43 AM

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ffff

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:45 AM

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wait i'm so dumb

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i mixed up rows and columns

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:45 AM

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Rip

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:45 AM

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still my solution doesn't work

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why

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i am dying

placid lake Dec 15, 2022, 5:46 AM

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naive way of doing this was a mistake

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:47 AM

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kekw

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Maybe I'll get top 1k for part 2 after all

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:47 AM

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placid lake naive way of doing this was a mistake

i mean a single glance at the numbers should make that obvious

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:48 AM

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Not entirely sure which will finish first

pine tiger Dec 15, 2022, 5:48 AM

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LOL

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is that vsc?

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:48 AM

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Yes

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Solution on the left has been running while I tried to optimise

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The optimised one doesn't work though so hopefully the less-optimised one does

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:50 AM

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lol

tepid cairn Dec 15, 2022, 5:54 AM

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earnest forge Not entirely sure which will finish first

you, uh, might want to blur put that solution for part 1 or something

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:54 AM

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tepid cairn you, uh, might want to blur put that solution for part 1 or something

My answer won't work for other people's inputs though?

tepid cairn Dec 15, 2022, 5:54 AM

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ah, I didn't have context for the puzzle, sorry

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:55 AM

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Dang, not top 1k

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:58 AM

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rip

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 5:58 AM

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shame I'm not at home yet

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:58 AM

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ahahahahahahahaha ifinished it

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kill me

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 5:59 AM

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part 1 seems pretty easy

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 5:59 AM

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naiive solutions won't work

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all im gonna say

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 5:59 AM

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magic oxide part 1 seems pretty easy

~~I didn't find it easy lmao I had a ton of stupid bugs~~

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~~also I made the mistake of trying the naive way~~

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:00 AM

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earnest forge ~~also I made the mistake of trying the naive way~~

||i tried to generate a set 4000000 * 4000000 and gave up doing the naiive way||

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:00 AM

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I was thinking just ||measure the Manhattan distances between each of the beacon sensor pairs and then only focus on the ones that are in range of 200k or wherever it is||

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:00 AM

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xd

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 6:00 AM

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magic oxide I was thinking just ||measure the Manhattan distances between each of the beacon...

I did that and it still didn't work lol

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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oh shit

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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earnest forge I did that and it still didn't work lol

for part 1?

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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Also I ||accidentally drew big triangles instead of diamonds|| so that didn't help

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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it worked for me .-.

earnest forge Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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Yes

hearty vigil Dec 15, 2022, 6:01 AM

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Hello.

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:02 AM

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hi

hearty vigil Dec 15, 2022, 6:02 AM

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I need help in setting up a spammer bot which I'm trying from weeks but failing again and again. I'm not good at coding so can anyone help me with this setup please?

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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not the right channel

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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i feel like it's against pydis rules too

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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earnest forge I did that and it still didn't work lol

like as in too slow or wrong answer?

hearty vigil Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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magic oxide not the right channel

Mhm..

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My bad.

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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torn thorn i feel like it's against pydis rules too

this too

hearty vigil Dec 15, 2022, 6:05 AM

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Nvm.

torn thorn Dec 15, 2022, 6:06 AM

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!rule tos

marsh currentBOT Dec 15, 2022, 6:06 AM

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Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may break laws, breach terms of services, or are malicious or inappropriate.

feral hazel Dec 15, 2022, 6:50 AM

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oh wow this one was a massacre
a bunch of people gave up/are taking over an hour for p2

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oh hey 1k difference in rank

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:51 AM

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i had a flight so i got delayed

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and i'm confused on the test case

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||do we not count positions where beacons/sensors already exist?||

feral hazel Dec 15, 2022, 6:52 AM

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magic oxide ||do we not count positions where beacons/sensors already exist?||

||we don't beacon positions as places where beacons can't be||

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 6:52 AM

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||what about if a sensor is there||

left yew Dec 15, 2022, 6:53 AM

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for part2 I am getting multiple possible distress positions and the problem says only one should be there

feral hazel Dec 15, 2022, 6:53 AM

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magic oxide ||what about if a sensor is there||

||doesn't happen otherwise sensor position and beacon position would be identical||

left yew Dec 15, 2022, 6:53 AM

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magic oxide ||what about if a sensor is there||

||then that beacon would be detected||

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 7:02 AM

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well then

rugged merlin Dec 15, 2022, 7:30 AM

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when you start to think maybe you should rethink your approach

magic oxide Dec 15, 2022, 7:43 AM

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I was like ||ok I'll attempt brute force with numpy for part 2 just to be sure it doesn't work||

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couldn't even get past the ||creating the array part||

north silo Dec 15, 2022, 9:14 AM

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rugged merlin when you start to think maybe you should rethink your approach

Just buy more ram.

polar sand Dec 15, 2022, 11:03 AM

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Time to start working on my third approach. First two have not worked

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Might get an answer if I run my second approach long enough

molten pasture Dec 15, 2022, 11:19 AM

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Sup

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I managed to do part 1 in 1.5ms (parsing+executing, but not opening/reading file)

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But I don't have a smart approach for part 2 yet

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I just bruteforced part 2 using my part 1 function and I managed to get the right solution, but it took many seconds

fossil cipher Dec 15, 2022, 11:32 AM

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oof, first puzzle this year where I don't have a clue. This looks awfully similar to a previous year's puzzle that I also had no idea how to do 😦

molten pasture Dec 15, 2022, 11:33 AM

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fossil cipher oof, first puzzle this year where I don't have a clue. This looks awfully simila...

Yeah. You mean last year's puzzle about beacons with different positions and rotations and you had to calculate the overlap?

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I also got stuck on that one

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Might have an idea for solving the second part

molten pasture Dec 15, 2022, 11:44 AM

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molten pasture I just bruteforced part 2 using my part 1 function and I managed to get the righ...

a lil more than a minute

polar sand Dec 15, 2022, 12:20 PM

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Doing the same. Mine will probably take a few minutes though and not a few seconds

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Not really sure how to optimize it

molten pasture Dec 15, 2022, 12:35 PM

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Eh it's a geometry thing, can't be bothered

#

I'm thinking of abandoning this year's advent for now. This has been taking up a lot of time in my days, I should focus on my exams and other stuff. My issue is that I can't stop thinking about the puzzle after I read it and I have to focus on it until I'm satisfied with the answer. I just can't let it go so I'm probably not gonna read about the advent anymore

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Is this an adhd thing?